- WILLIAM HARTWIG in his life filled an honorable place among
the industrious and useful
- citizens of Green county, who were content to return an honest
day for a day's wages, and glad to deal squarely and fairly with
all they met.
- Mr. HARTWIG was born in Germany in 1825, and married Sophie
HABERMAN in his native
- land, the young couple coming to the United States in 1849.
Here Mr. HARTWIG made the beginning of an industrious and highly
useful career by doing day's work. His children were: Christian,
born in 1850, married Elizabeth HENN. William, born in 1852,
married Mary ANSMEIR, and died in 1887. Ferdinand, born in 1855,
died thirty years later. Mary, born in 1861, married Ferdinand
AUSMUS, a farmer in Green county. Mrs. Sophie HARTWIG, born in
1825, survives her husband, who died in 1890.
- Mr. HARTWIG was in very desperate circumstances at the time
of his arrival in Wisconsin, but
- his industry, economy and unflinching integrity, aided by
the efforts of his faithful wife, in the course of a few years
greatly changed conditions, and he soon became one of the large
land owners of the county. He was a Republican politically, and
a member of the Evangelical Church at Juda, Wis. Mr. HARTWIG
in his late years disposed of the greater part of his farming
land, and was about to move to Juda, where he had bought property
and planned to spend his old age with his cherished wife, when
he died. Mrs. HARTWIG lives in Juda, and her granddaughter, Miss
Lydia HARTWIG, lives with her, and is highly cherished by her
acquaintances. Mrs. HARTWIG has been a member of the Evangelical
Church for many years.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 566-567.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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